Chapter 943 Lightning Counterattack
Under Major Iskan's order, fifty elite soldiers from the Irish Foreign Corps "Mohammed" battalion rushed to the northern Amona ranch in two tow trucks and two six-wheeled trucks. This large ranch covering an area of more than 200 acres now has more than 4,000 cattle in total, and most of them are mature dairy cows. In terms of scale and output, it should be among the best in the entire Palestine and even the Middle East. Fresh milk produced here is continuously transported to Tel Aviv, part of which is directly canned to the citizens, and part is used to produce various dairy products, ensuring the most basic supply of non-staple food in Tel Aviv, a huge Jewish settlement.
In addition to the open pasture and tidy wooden cowshed, this pasture built by Jewish immigrants also has a huge warehouse for feed storage. It is twenty meters high, equivalent to an ordinary four-story building with an area of nearly one acre and 4,000 square meters. Its main body is a concrete structure. Although the walls are not thick enough to withstand artillery fire, it is still more than enough to protect against gunfires. Unfortunately, the 40 Jewish militia stationed here, including a small "flying army" carrying machine guns and submachine guns, failed to fully utilize the defensive value of this solid fortress. The Arabs only charged twice, and no more than 30 people were killed or injured, and then seized the warehouse from them.
When the Ottoman soldiers who were incorporated by the Irish military arrived at the ranch, the guards who had abandoned their armor had retreated to the cowshed at the southern end of the ranch. To be honest, they cannot be blamed entirely for this defeat. Most of them are civilians who work hard on their daily lives. They only have time to receive basic military training after their daily work. Even so, under the limitations of various objective conditions, each person has a very good opportunity to train one bullet per month, and his practical experience is infinitely close to zero. Facing the screaming Arab riders, how many people are not panicked? After a round of shooting, how many people can remain calm? The only thing that is thankful is that 39 of the 40 guards retreated unscathed, and only one unlucky guy disappeared.
On this moonless night, the sight in the wild was quite bad. After meeting with the embarrassed guards, the officers who commanded the Ottoman soldiers to support the ranch quickly summoned the commanders of each team. After a brief discussion, they quickly determined the combat strategy of launching a counterattack on the spot and regaining the warehouse by lightning.
"The whole team went east along the bullpen, jumping forward, restraining and blocking the enemy from the right wing." After returning to the team, Chief Demiloc conveyed combat instructions to the nine soldiers under his command with concise tactical words, and then pointed out the combat formation with a column rushing gesture.
These nine soldiers were "remnants" of the old Ottoman army. Two of them served in the Ottoman Guards like Demiloc. The other seven people served in five different troops in the past. They basically didn't know each other before they defected to Ireland. After joining the Irish Foreign Corps, harsh training gradually changed them. When they did not send foreign missions, they were often arranged by the Irish military to play the "villain". They fought against the regular Irish army in various battles. The measures of winning, winning, losing and punishing and no choice were forced to abandon the various bad habits they had developed in the Ottoman army in the past, and they clenched them tightly into a fist. Later, they repeatedly defeated the proud Irish army in battles of equal specifications, and established a great reputation in the military boundaries of Ireland and even the Western Allies.
Although the equipment level of the Irish Foreign Corps can be comparable to the regular army units of the new United Kingdom, there is still a clear gap compared to the country's real special operations elite, Royal Guard. In early 1948, the world-renowned ace unit was equipped with vehicle-mounted and individual infrared night vision devices, which can accurately kill targets in an environment where you can't see your fingers, and have explored a more mature modern night battle mode. In this alone, the Irish Foreign Corps has disadvantages that cannot be compensated by courage and skills...
A minute later, Demirok lowered his head and waist, holding the guardrail at the front of the stg-45 assault rifle magazine with his left hand, and holding the gun handle with his right hand, ready to open the safety at any time and then pull the trigger with his index finger to shoot. His feet sometimes quickly alternately, sometimes with the left leg in front and the right leg to the ground, and the two assaulters who also used the stg-45 followed closely, focusing on the left and right sides, followed by two throwing using the Hubert-iii semi-automatic rifle and grenade launcher
The ammunition soldiers, their mission is to support their teammates with bullets and grenades in melee combat, and use grenades to kill the enemy in medium and long-range attacks or defenses; behind are machine gunners equipped with mg-43 machine guns and deputy shooters carrying two ammunition boxes, they will stop at any time to provide strong fire support to the combat team; next is a blaster carrying a 50mm rocket launcher, a sniper using a sniper Hubert-Iii semi-automatic rifle, and behind the temple is a senior non-commissioned officer using stg-45.
Walking through the six bullpens, Demirok stopped, squat slowly, then raised his right hand, clenched his fingers into fists, indicating that there was an enemy situation in front of his teammates. After observing for a while, he opened his five fingers, waved his right hand out, and issued a command to move to the right tactics. Based on the limited visual distance in this environment, the soldiers following behind passed the battle instructions one by one with gestures, and advanced lightly and quickly to the right of the leader. During this period, Demirok knelt on one knee, held the assault rifle with his right hand, and held the telescope with his left hand, carefully observed the enemy situation in the warehouse and surrounding areas: After occupying this large warehouse, the Arabs did not seem to be busy sweeping the entire ranch. After only seeing the few bullpens closest to the warehouse, they happily called their companions and began to drive the cattle in the bullpen to the east.
On the road east of the ranch, Arab riders holding torches were escorting trucks and carriages, and some seemed to have wiped out the torches. They screamed and shot at the town from the hills. It seemed that they were not afraid that the Jewish militia equipped with machine guns would leave the town and intercept them.
Demirok and his well-trained and experienced soldiers were waiting quietly. Soon, two teams launched attacks from the front to the warehouse. The teams with the two wings immediately opened fire. The dense and precise firepower caused the Arabs around the warehouse to be killed and injured in an instant. The guys who were driving cattle hurriedly raised their guns to fight back. However, in this night when there was no trace of the figures between three or five meters, most of their bullets were shot at the bullpen. The Ottoman soldiers who were responsible for the main attack missions of the two teams were shooting and moving forward alternately. The leaping muzzle lights were the best guide for their aiming. Therefore, the warehouse was filled with gunfire, the sound of cows, and the screams of the Arabs being shot and injured.
After the battle began, Demirok suppressed the Arabs at the warehouse gate with a dot shot, while alerting the changes in the battlefield situation. Realizing that the Arab riders holding torches accelerated from a little further away, he growled to the soldiers under his command during the gap in changing magazines: "Machine gunners, grenadiers, blasters, block the road to the east!"
The machine gunner turned the direction of the muzzle without hesitation. Two grenades quickly loaded grenade launchers at the muzzle. The blaster, who had no chance to show, quickly loaded grenade rockets. In a moment, three weapons were exerted one after another: the intensive strafing of the machine gun can be called the natural enemy of infantry and cavalry, not to mention the mg-43, which is known for its speed of fire. The explosive power of the grenade is slightly better than that of ordinary grenades. In addition to the sound of the fire, it basically fell silently and then exploded. Although the power of a single rocket is inferior to that of airborne and vehicle-borne rockets, it is undoubtedly a "big killer" among individual weapons. The harsh roaring sound of the rocket when it is launched can be clearly heard a few kilometers away, and a random grenade rocket can cause a death area of 10-15 meters...
Not long after, the road leading to the ranch warehouse was covered with corpses of people and horses. Many survivors ran in a panic, and the ownerless horses ran around. They encountered an invisible and unbreakable "Devil Wall". The fierce Arab militants became timid. They hesitated and wandered far away. They restrained the enemy on the outside and attacked the warehouse head-only smoothly cleaned up the Arab militants around the warehouse. It was clean, and a small number of people were still trying to defend the warehouse. With the number of people not being superior, the Ottoman soldiers who had experienced various battle formations and military exercises did not rush in, but cunningly threw two smoke bombs inside, and then shouted "Run quickly, there is poisonous gas" in Arabic. Within half a minute, the Arabs inside escaped from the warehouse, and were easily picked up the "head" by the Ottoman soldiers who were squatting outside.
However, as the elite soldiers of the "Mohamed" battalion were about to successfully recover the ranch warehouse, the last group of Arabs set a fire ruthlessly before evacuating. The large bales of hay stacks were immediately ignited, and the fire suddenly developed to the point where human resources could not extinguish them. Moreover, the fire in the warehouse illuminated a large area around. The Ottoman soldiers exposed were soon shot by the Arabs. They had to retreat to the cattle shed area and watched the stock hay that was available for the ranch for two months was burned into grass ashes...
Chapter completed!